Ant Banks

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Sittin 'on Somethin' Phat   US 123 04/10/1993 (7 weeks) The Big Bad Ass   US 80 07/02/1994 (5 weeks) Big Thangs   US 20th 07/26/1997 (10 weeks)

Ant Banks (* as Anthony Banks ) is an American rapper and music producer specializing in West Coast hip-hop , gangsta rap and G-funk .

biography

Ant Banks is from the San Francisco Bay Area . He began his music career working with Too Short, who is particularly well known there . From 1989 to 1992 he was also involved in several albums by Spice 1 and Pooh-Man , as well as the soundtrack for the film Juice - City-War as a producer, sound engineer , mixer and guest musician. His first appearance as a solo artist was on the soundtrack to Menace II Society with the song "Packin 'A Gun".

Due to his good network in the hip-hop scene in the Bay Area, Ant Banks finally got a contract with Jive Records . He released his debut album "Sittin 'on Somethin' Phat" through this label in 1993. At the work, unusual for West Coast rap of the time, there were live instruments to be heard, including a guitar played by Michael Hampton of Parliament . The long player was able to stay on the Billboard 200 for a few weeks and reached the top position 123.

With the successor "The Big Bad Ass" from 1994 he even surpassed this result and reached number 80 on the US album charts. The third album "Do or Die" was a disappointment in this regard and was only listed in the "R&B Albums" charts of Billboard magazine .

Ant Banks then recorded a group album with Too Short, Goldy and Father Dom under the name The Dangerous Crew , and in 1997 he had his fourth solo album “Big Thangs”. He relied on numerous features from well-known rappers from the west coast of the USA such as 2Pac , Ice Cube and E-40 . He hit the masses' taste and had the biggest chart success of his solo career with 20th place on the Billboard 200.

He ended this and founded the group TWDY , with which he recorded two albums in 1999 and 2000. Afterwards, as at the beginning of his career, he worked primarily as a producer. While at the beginning of the 2000s he was still working for artists such as Too Short, Keak da Sneak , Roots Manuva , Celly Cel or Rappin '4-Tay , a little later the number of his productions decreased significantly and he could only be heard on songs by unknown musicians .

Discography

Albums

• 1993: Sittin 'on Somethin' Phat
• 1994: The Big Bad Ass
• 1995: Do or Die
• 1997: Big Thangs

compilation

• 1998: The Best of Ant Banks

Singles

• 1993: Late Nite
• 1993: Livin 'the Life
• 1994: parlayin '
• 1995: I Think I Wanna Die (Losin 'It)

Web links

• Ant Banks at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Billboard : Top 200 Albums - The week of April 10, 1993
2. ^ Billboard: Ant Banks - Chart history